Archives for
March 2012

If you want a half-price 2013 Infiniti JX crossover, get in line behind 4,600 people on the wait list. Though, getting in line won't do much good either. This was a one-shot deal for charity. Gilt Groupe offered one vehicle at half-price -- $27,425 -...

Yahoo on Monday made good on its promise to sue Facebook, alleging in a complaint that Facebook violated 10 patents. The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif., makes a case that Yahoo innovated on several fronts, including m...

Posterous is now part of Twitter. The 4-year-old blogging platform officially announced the acquisition Monday afternoon on its company blog, noting that “the opportunities in front of Twitter are exciting, and we couldn’t be happier about bringing o...

Since Facebook's Open Graph became available just two months ago to Timeline apps, the social network has added nearly 3,000 of such apps, the company announced Monday at SXSW. Facebook added a slew of new apps today as well, including Foursquare, Th...

A new iPhone app called Hudld is looking to replace TweetDeck on your iPhone. Much like TweetDeck, which was acquired last year by Twitter, Hudld offers the ability to post to both Facebook and Twitter simultaneously and integrates your Facebook and ...

The new iPad isn't even out yet, but that's not stopping people from trying to guess how big a hit it will be. One industry analyst estimates it'll best the original iPad launch by more than a factor of three. Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster said in a n...

Google says it's working on a version of Chrome that will run in the Metro environment of Windows 8. The news follows the revelation that Mozilla is building Firefox for Metro as well. A Google spokesperson told Mashable that the new version of Chrom...

The weekend may be over, but SXSW's social media conversations are still happening. According to findings from the Meltwater Group, there were almost 330,000 conversations occurring in social spaces surrounding SXSW; 95% of those occurred on Twitter,...

Singer-songwriter Jason Mraz gave a verbal thumbs-up to Instagram and printing services that bring the app's images to life during a recent New York City gallery event held for winners of his Instagram contest. Mraz challenged fans to visually transl...

Many doctors believe that using apps that keep track of your health will help cut down on doctor visits, a new infographic suggests. According to data revealed by Float Mobile Learning, 40% of doctors believe that using mobile health technologies suc...

Forget following a SXSW panel's hashtag to see what happened. Why not look at some cool visual notes? Ad agency Ogilvy created Ogilvy Notes to capture all the action of SXSW's most interesting panels in a creative way. They sent several artists to th...

In what has become a highly controversial move, advertising agency BBH transformed some of Austin's homeless people into mobile hotspots during SXSW Interactive. Thirteen homeless from Austin's Front Steps shelter donning an “I'm a 4G hotspot” T-shir...

If you've taken part in Occupy Wall Street, then the New York County District Attorney's Office might want to take a peek at your Twitter data. The DA's office has sent subpoenas to Twitter asking for the data of a handful of people arrested last yea...

With Sunday's announcement of the NCAA Tournament field, March Madness is officially upon us. As has been the case since before the Internet ruled our lives, Selection Sunday sparked a barrage of fan reactions and analyst prognostications. This year ...

March 11 was the anniversary of Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami, and citizens worldwide commemorated the event. Not only did news outlets release countless stories assessing Japan's situation one year later, but people all over the world a...

As a fully-licensed and accredited man, I am wholly unqualified to discuss what women want or care about. That's what social data is for. Social media monitoring company NetBase analyzed a year's worth of online conversations -- 27 billion, to be exa...

Information hits the Web and just like that the news spreads like fire. Stories are frantically re-reported and some are missing an important detail -- attribution. David Carr, media reporter for The New York Times, wrote an article on Monday about a...

Shoppers would rather visit a retailer's mobile website over using a branded app, according to a new study. A report released by Nielsen Wire on Monday found that retail websites are more popular than retail apps. It also revealed that Amazon is the ...

The KONY 2012 campaign, launched by the non-profit Invisible Children to stop Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony, became an international sensation last week with its viral video, which has since become the most viral video in history, according to one rese...

Here's one instance when man triumphs over the visually-impaired machine. The online game Phylo lets gamers solve the multiple sequence alignment (MSA) problem by finding the best possible DNA sequence match between up to eight species at a time --- ...

Dana Oshiro is a Canadian writer and the senior analyst and publishing strategist for NetShelter Technology Media's 200+ gadget, mobile and IT bloggers. She writes regularly at Villagers with Pitchforks, tweets as @suzyperplexus and connects with oth...

One Facebook engineer says she wants to get more women into tech. But why aren’t there any women on the company’s board? An engineering director at the company, Jocelyn Goldfein, told the Seattle Times today that she’s “quite hopeful that Facebook ca...

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